With RVA SK8 Club, the Richmond Area Skateboarding Alliance is passing on their knowledge to the skateboard-loving youth of Richmond's elementary schools. Skateboarding isn’t the most conventional sport — within skate culture, plenty don’t acknowledge it as a sport at...
Hip Hop X Skate X Fashion: A Conversation with Shawn Gray of Washington Avenue Skateboarding
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #37, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. Hip hop and skateboarding: two subcultures with roots that go back well over 40 years. Over the decades, each has had a long struggle for acceptance before eventually...
RVA #37 Is On The Streets Now!
Summer is alive in the River City, and the latest issue of RVA Magazine is here with it to tell the stories of arts, music, politics, and culture across Virginia. It's August, it's hot, and it's only going to get hotter here in the River City with the arrival on the...
Shredding At Pulaski
The pristine marble of Washington DC's Freedom Plaza has made it a favorite spot year after year for street skaters in the DMV and all over the world. Tattooed on Mikey Payne’s right knee is “13th and E”: the address of Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza. As a teenager,...
‘Breaking Bread’: VA Skateboarding Crew Premieres New Film
From the day they set up their first board, skaters have been coming together to "shred", whether it be Richmond's streets and alleyways, events such as the "Free-For-All" Go Skateboarding Day at Kanawha Plaza — before it was renovated, to local group RASA...
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